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. 2012 May 18;13(6):521-4.
doi: 10.1038/ni.2321.

Immune to addiction: the ethical dimensions of vaccines against substance abuse

Michael J Young  1 , Dominic A Sisti, Hila Rimon-Greenspan, Jason L Schwartz, Arthur L Caplan
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Immune to addiction: the ethical dimensions of vaccines against substance abuse

Michael J Young et al. Nat Immunol. .

Abstract

Promising advances have been made in recent years for a unique class of immunotherapies that use vaccination to combat substance-use disorders. Although such vaccines are potentially useful for addictions, they raise a variety of ethical and social questions.

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